Other Databases/Indexes

This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for nearly 2,000 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Google Scholar

Google ScholarGoogle Scholar will match its results with what we have available through UI Libraries' subscriptions. Set your scholarly preferences to the UI Libraries for off-campus use. Try several search strategies to view your topic from various perspectives.

Note: Google Scholar does not search all of the UI Libraries' databases. Not everything in Google Scholar is scholarly.

Journal Collections

Google indexes a large amount of scholarly research in many fields. It can be a useful tool in Political Science research, but try Worldwide Political Science and PAIS International on the databases/indexes page, too.

Provides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, philosophy, mathematics and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. Consult the online tables of contents for holdings, as coverage varies for each title. Note that this database contains ONLY back issues. Journals may be searched across multiple titles as well as by the individual titles below. The JSTOR database does NOT include full-text of the most recent 3 to 5 years. Restricted to UI Community

LexisNexis Government Periodicals Index (1988-present) locates articles from journals and magazines published by U.S. government agencies on issues relating to public policy, commerce, and science-based topics of general interest for both consumers and researchers. Searchable by subject, keyword, author, and title. Restricted to UI Community.

Electronic index to over 4,500 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, covering each periodical from its first issue (as early as 1665) . Every article is indexed. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other languages. Restricted to UI Community

With full text for well over 300 journal titles from university publishers, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others. Coverage begins in 1995. Restricted to UI Community

SAGE is the world's 5th largest journals publisher. Titles include more than 645 journals spanning the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology, and Medicine, and more than 280 are published on behalf of 225 learned societies and institutions.